No Rock And Roll Fun

DID MAVERICK TEACH YOU NOTHING?: Despite the sizeable hole put in Warner's bottom line by allowing Madonna a record label to play with, the big companies are still so desperate to cling on to artists at any costs, they're still letting their big names launch questionable vanity projects. Blink 182's drummer (drummer) is the latest to get the have-a-train-set treatment, being allowed to create La Salle Records, with Atlantic picking up the actual dirty end of getting records into shops. Even "better", it's going to provide a home for his supergroup The Transplants, where he and Tim Armstrong "get it out their systems."